Category: Olympics

deep dive – Men’s Gymnastics in Paris

I learned a lot from listening to Kensley and Sam recap the Paris Games.

Both were unconvinced by the judging of the Floor Apparatus Final.

Should Yulo have won Gold?

Paul Hall stepped down as British Gymnastics men’s head national coach. Recall he was appointed in 2018 after Eddie van Hoof was removed. Eddie is now leading the resurgent Canadian team.

Kensley was in Paris as an analyst. Shares some behind the scenes stories.

Sam talks much about strategy, team building, and psychology of competing at the highest level.

He has advice on what the USA needs for Los Angelos 2028.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube. (1hr 45min)

Watanabe – FIG WTC – fix the many mistakes made in Paris

celebrating Ana, Jordan and Sabrina

Certainly you could argue that any of Jordan Chiles (USA), Ana Barbosu (ROM) and Sabrina Maneca-Voinea (ROM) could have won the Bronze medal on Floor at the Olympics.

It was close.

All excellent routines.

Sadly, judging errors were made by the FIG.

The FIG system for making an appeal is neither clear nor fair in 2024.

It seemed to me that the Court of Arbitration for Sport made a decision too quickly and without doing enough research. That should be reviewed.

In the end, Ana Barbosu is in the record books with the Bronze medal.

The entire “Paris Floor Bronze Debacle” ending an otherwise excellent Olympics on a very sour note. It’s one of the things the general public will remember — along with that Pommel Horse guy.

If the debacle had not happened, we’d be celebrating the return of Romania as Olympic medal contenders. That famous program is finally turned around.

Congratulations.

Japanese Olympic Gala – 3 cities

September 29th (Sunday) Kitakyushu Municipal Gymnasium

October 13th (Sun) Aomori Prefecture Budokan (Hirosaki City)

October 27th (Sun) White Ring (Nagano City)

Japan’s national Artistic, Trampoline, and Rhythmic gymnasts.

Tickets.

most accomplished Olympic male gymnasts

Most decorated male gymnasts at the Olympics since 1948.

1. Nikolai Andrianov – URS – 1971-1980 | 78 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 5 Oly Silver / 3 Oly Bronze
2. Boris Shaklin – URS – 1956- 1964 | 69 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver / 2 Oly Bronze
3. Sawao Kato – JPN – 1968-1977 | 67 points
8 Oly Gold / 3 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
4. Takashi Ono – JPN – 1956-194 | 65 points
5 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver / 4 Oly Bronze
5. Viktor Chukarin – URS – 1952-1956 | 61 points (deceased)
7 Oly Gold / 3 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
6. Alexey Nemov – RUS – 1993-2004 | 58 points
4 Oly Gold / 2 Oly Silver / 6 Oly Bronze
7. Akinori Nakayama – JPN – 1965 – 1972 | 54 points
6 Oly Gold / 2 Oly Silver / 2 Oly Bronze
8. Vitaly Scherbo – URS |  CIS | BLR – 1989-1997 | 53 points
6 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Bronze
9. Alexander Dityatin – URS – 1976-1980 | 51 points
3 Oly Gold / 6 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze
10. Mikhail Voronin – URS – 1966-1972 | 45 points (deceased)
2 Oly Gold / 6 Oly Silver / 1 Oly Bronze

See the full list on Zhoxxyy.

Surprising to me was seeing Kōhei Uchimura – JPN – 2007-2021 only ranked 14th.

3 Oly Gold / 4 Oly Silver

Breaking Gold – Ami Yuasa & Philip Kim

Breaking got a lot of attention at the Paris Olympics.

BUT it’s yet another subjective sport evaluated by flawed human beings.

Los Angeles will drop the sport, adding things like Softball and Touch Football.

There were two medal events, one each for men and women, with 16 “b-boys” and “b-girls” competing.

Philip Kim won in the men’s division. Ami Yuasa in the women’s.

Breaking was previously featured at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

IOC President Thomas Bach stated that breakdancing was added as part of an effort to draw more interest from young people in the Olympics.